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A bistatic radar consists of a separated (by a considerable distance) transmitting and receiving site. Therefore, a monostatic Doppler radar can be upgraded easily with a bistatic receiver system. With a single bistatic receiver 2-dimensional wind field can be measured in real time. A second bistatic receiver with coverage in the same lobe can be used to give a 3-dimensional vector wind field. |
| Around Oberpfaffenhofen a Bistatic Multi-Doppler Radar Network
consisting of three bistatic receivers and the transmitting
and additional receiving Polarisation-Doppler Radar POLDIRAD.
Current research topics are the determination of 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional wind fields with 3 bistatic receivers. Furthermore, investigations on reducing errors in wind field measurements to use them as input data for mesoscale models are carried out. |
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The bistatic radar research group is a part of the Polarisation-Doppler Radar POLDIRAD radar team, where e.g. research in classification of hydrometeors on behalf of differential reflectivity, depolarization is carried out. as well as a quantitative estimation of precipitation, lightning as depending on the micro physical developments and NOx production in thunderstorms are actual research topics. |